I provide resources mainly for English (IGCSE and GCSE content), but also post useful Drama resources. There are also brand new English-with-Media resources to choose from, and many materials such as assemblies and certificates that could prove useful to Head of Years. All resources are differentiated appropriately and labelled with key year groups.
I provide resources mainly for English (IGCSE and GCSE content), but also post useful Drama resources. There are also brand new English-with-Media resources to choose from, and many materials such as assemblies and certificates that could prove useful to Head of Years. All resources are differentiated appropriately and labelled with key year groups.
Lesson Includes:
Activities on the word of the Week (Cultural Identity)
Coverage of context (Grace Nichols background and UK post-war immigration)
Coverage of key concepts and techniques including reconcilliation and allusion
An initial reading of a poem
Partner work, individual work, presentation opportunities and peer review
8 Week 40 lesson non-fiction SOW including:
Word of the weeks at the start of each week
A focus on a range of non-fiction pieces
Fully differentiated resources
Many extension activities and opportunities for student reflection
Multiple choice knowledge tests at the end of each week
A mid-term assessment and end of term assessment
An end of term 68- question multiple choice knowledge test
Lesson 1: Students will be introduced to the 5 senses, and how to implement them into a descriptive piece
Lesson 2: Students will consolidate their understanding of the 5 senses, and also language techniques. They will write a descriptive piece about the sinking of the Titanic.
Lesson One: In this lesson, students will act out Act 3 of ‘Dara’, and answer IGCSE Section A style questions at the end. They will contemplate the staging of certain scenes, and the changing relationships between characters - in particular, the relationship between Dara and Aurangzeb.
Lesson Two: This lesson focuses on the events and key themes in Act 4 of the play Dara. After reading the act in it’s entirety, students will have the chance to answer some comprehension questions, and reflect on the way they would stage the execution scene.
This lesson focuses on acts of rebellion in Dystopian Fiction, in particular the ‘berries scene’ in The Hunger Games. The students will detect rebellious/revolutionary language in the extract, and then write their own revolutionary speech against the Capitol and President Snow.
The first lesson focuses on Robert Louis Stevenson’s background, and the cultural anxieties that inspired Jekyll and Hyde.
The second lesson focuses on linking psychoanalytical theory to Jekyll and Hyde (mostly an exploration of the ego, superego and id/conscious and unconscious mind).
This lesson teaches students to find violent verbs and onomatopoeia in Hughes’ poem ‘Wind’. This was made for my intervention year 7 sets, so would suit a year 5/6 class as well.
This is a fun lesson and worksheet that can come directly after watching the film ‘Elf’ and looking out for themes of identity/cultural identity. This lesson/sheet includes:
An analysis task
A poetry task
A film review task
A fun ‘elf-on-the-shelf’ creative task
This 12 lesson scheme of work focuses on the first three questions of the AQA Language Paper 1. In these lessons, students are given the necessary knowledge and resources to be able to answer all three of these questions confidently.
SOW Summary:
Lesson 1: Question 1 focus, reading Stephen King’s ‘IT’. Students have a chance to write their own question 1 as well!
Lesson 2: Question 2 focus, with a guided annotation of King’s ‘IT’ extract.
Lesson 3: A focus on language techniques, and testing language analysis with an excerpt from Peter Benchley’s ‘Jaws’.
Lesson 4: A focus on analyzing setting, using an extract from Khaled Hosseini’s ‘The Kite Runner’.
Lesson 5: A focus on allusion and advanced language techniques in Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’.
Lesson 6: Finalizing the study of question 2 by analyzing an extract from Tolkien’s ‘Lord of The Rings’.
Lesson 7: Intro to question 3 and metamorphosis extract used for event tracking.
Lesson 8: Focus on voice and tracking events, using an extract No Country for Old Men.
Lesson 9: Focus on tracking events, using extract from The White Tiger.
Lesson 10: Focus on structural devices, using extract from A Christmas Carol
Lesson 11: Focus on key changes in a text, using the lyrics from ‘Let it Go’.
Lesson 12: Finalizing the exploration of question 3. A study of a text’s ‘focus’ and sentence types, using an extract from Voices from Chernobyl.
Lesson 1: Intro to question and metamorphosis extract used for event-tracking.
Lesson 2: Focus on voice and tracking events, using an extract No Country for Old Men.
Lesson 3: Focus on tracking events, using extract from The White Tiger.
Lesson 4: Focus on structural devices, using extract from A Christmas Carol
Lesson 5: Focus on key changes in a text, using the lyrics from ‘Let it Go’.
Lesson 6: A study of a text’s ‘focus’ and sentence types, using an extract from Voices from Chernobyl.
This lesson is the fifth in a scheme of work on GCSE skills - however, it can easily stand alone. This lesson allows students to study a section of Of Mice and Men, and analyse any techniques they find. At the end, students will produce a question 2 style response.
Three lessons on Question One and Two of the AQA Language Paper 1. These lessons include quality resources, and opportunities for students to use both critical and creative skills, in preparation for the next questions.
This IS A three lesson SOW that introduces the students to the origins of the tragic genre.
Lesson 1: In this lesson, students become familiar with vocabulary associated with the tragic genre, with a particular focus on Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex.
Lesson 2: In this lesson, students analyse the origins of the tragic genre. Students will analyse and become familiar with the themes and characters of the play ‘Medea’.
Lesson 3: In this lesson, students will become familiar with different tragic solilquies throughout history: from Antigone, to Othello, to Death of a Salesman. The students will choose to analyse one of six soliloquies, and then get into pairs so that they can present a comparative analysis.
These lessons were originally planned for my bottom set intervention Y7 group, and therefore would work for a Y5/6 group, or any bottom set Y7 or perhaps Y8.
Lesson 1: Intro to Romanticism
Lesson 2: Intro to I wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Lesson 3: Finding techniques in IWLAAC
Lesson 4: Writing a paragraph on IWLAAC
Lesson 5: Intro to ‘Wind’ by Ted Hughes, and finding connotations
Lesson 6: Finding violent verbs and onomatopeia in ‘Wind’ by Ted Hughes
Lesson 7: Planning and Writing a paragraph for ‘Wind’ by Ted Hughes
Lesson 8: Introduction to ‘The Moon’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
Lesson 9: Planning an assessment response on ‘The Moon’.
Lesson 10: Writing an analytical paragraph on ‘The Moon’
Lesson 11: Paragraph Improvement Lesson (with teacher feedback sheet)
This SOW combines both Media and English in order for students to construct a film review during their assessment week. They will also have the chance to explore elements of cinematography, scriptwriting and analysis of cliche in film. This is the first two weeks of a five week SOW, which is also available as a bundle. Each week is also available to purchase seperately.
5 lesson SOW including a word of the week lesson, key concepts, and a low stakes quiz. Students will be trained to analyze articles relating to current affairs, and produce a critical paragraphs recording their findings. Focus of the week is ‘disparity’.
This is the fourth lesson in an A Level SOW on ASND. If you’re wanting the lessons that came before this, please visit the shop! This could easily act as a stand alone lesson, though.
This is the fifth lesson in an A Level SOW on ASND. In this lesson, students will look at the male-female relationships in the play through a Jungian lens. If you’re wanting the lessons that came before this, please visit the shop! This could easily act as a stand alone lesson, though.
